Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9%, are extinct. Headlines often suggest ...

What are the greatest global threats to humanity? Are we on the verge of our own unexpected extinction? An international team of scientists, mathematicians and philosophers at Oxford University's ...

A new study has revealed when humans could go extinct by - and only if we stop burning fossil fuels now. Experts from the University of Bristol have revealed that all mammals on Earth could face mass ...

Early human ancestors came close to eradication after a severe evolutionary bottleneck presented itself around 800,000 to 900,000 years ago A new genetics analysis of more than 3,000 living people ...

Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been “dangerously underexplored”, climate ...

'Hobbits' are thought to have become extinct around the time modern humans arrived SCIENTISTS have found new clues about a mysterious ancient human species – indicating they roamed around the earth a ...

Bleak picture for biodiversity as analysis of over 80,000 species forecasts more losers than winners Researchers have categorised more than 80,000 plant species worldwide and found that most of them ...

Study suggests that around 900,000 years ago there were fewer than 1,300 breeding individuals of the species Homo heidelbergensis Joe Pinkstone joined The Telegraph in 2021. He is recognised for ...